Monday, October 8, 2007
Prewrite
1. What are you good at?
2. How do you feel when you're doing the thing you're good at?
3. How would you feel if people wouldn't let you do the thing you're good at?
Answer
1. I'm good at playing baseball.
2.I feel so good and alive.o
3.I feel bad and bored.
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Chapter 1
1. What problems or conflicts are presented in chapter one? Tao needing to find a rabbit is an obvious one; identify at least two more.
2. Predict the resolution of each conflic
Answer
1.The prolem is that Teo lost the rabbit in the wood and when he goes back it is not there.
2. He might not find the rabbit.
Chapter 2
What two important events happen in this chapter?
Answer
1.It was when Teo helps the wolf .When he went to the fosersate place.
Chapter 3
1. What do Tao and Ram learn to do together?
2. What decision does Tao tell Volt?
3. Look at Tao's decisions and actions from Volt's perspective. Pretend you are Volt. Write a first person paragraph explaining how you feel.
Answer
1.They learn to hunt
2.He tell he is going to hunt by himself.
3.I will be so mad and anger at Tao. Because i told him to go hunting with the huter and refuelsed to go with the hunter.So then if i will tell himto look for his on food.
Chapter 4
In a good paragraph, describe Tao's mother. Start with an interest grabber. Then write your topic sentence. Give three details or examples to support your thesis. Use a quotation from the chapter.
ANSWER
Tao mom is a good person because she sacrificred her self to save tao. She stop the person of killing tao. she die for him.
She liked to paint she saw thing wonderful.Like tao see wongerful things. They she was lovlyperson.
Chapter 5
1. Which two animals does Tao try to draw?
2. Which is easier for him and why?
Answer
1. He drawed Ram and horse.
2.It is easier because he can see his shadow.
Chapter 6
1. Graybeard realizes that Tao has broken two taboos of his clan. What are they?
2. Which taboo doesn't he know about yet?
3. Graybeard describes Volt differently than we have. What aspects of Volt's character is Graybeard acknowledging?
Answer
1.he know about hunt with a wolf dog and hunt in a forrbidin place.
2.he paints
3.he is a good person.
Chapter 7
Write your reaction to the last paragraph in the chapter. Do you agree or disagree with Graybeard? Is what he says true for those times, but not now? Or, is the reverse true: was it not true then, but true now?
Answer
1. i thought he so angryand i agree with graybear.Yes because now we can draw with out permisson on paper and they couldn't because they could of killed him.
Chapter 8
An important theme in this novel is that people should follow their dreams and do what they believe is right, even if they don't follow their society's expected ways.
The author examines this theme in a stone age setting. Imagine a similar situation today.
What situation did you imagine?
In the situation you imagined, should the person follow his or her dreams or should they follow society's rules? Give your opinion.
Answer
1. like Arnold Aorshinager wantto be president but he can't because he is not born in the U.S.A.
Chapter 9
Why do you think Graybeard changed his mind?
What does this tell you about his character?
Answer
1.He change hismind of tao painting.
2. thta he can lookat peoplesdreams and be about them.
Chapter 10
1. What are the "mountains-that-walk"?
2. What almost happened to Tao?
1. They are the mammoth
2. He almost die but ram saved him.
Chapter 11
Do you think Graybeard is a good teacher? Why?
Would you like to have been taught a skill by him? Why?
Answer
1. i do think he is a good because he gives you courage.
2.Yes i will like to be tought because he is a master painter.
Chapter 12
1. Name some of the ingredients used to make paint. Which surprised you most?
2. Why is Tao afraid at the end of the chapter?
Answer
1. There is animal fat, eggs,and blood.The most surprised is the animal fat.
2.He is afraid that graybeard is going to die.
hapter 13
1. Even if Ram had succeeded in hunting the deer, do you think it was a good idea of Tao's to "show off" his dog's ability to hunt? Explain.
2. Predict what will happen next. If you've read ahead, invent an alternate scene.
answer
1.no because if he killes them he will think he is taking the food for him self.
2.i think graybeard is going to die.
Chapter 14
1. Why does Tao cross the river?
2. What decision does Graybeard reach?
answer
1. he crossed it because he heard a wolf dog across te river.
2.To give him to paint in the secret cavern.
Chapter 15
What problem does Tao have by the end of the chapter?
answer
1. he lost in the secret cavern and his candle went out.
chaper 16
this is a picture of a bull.
Chapter 17
Wow! What a chapter! What was your reaction? Tense? Surprised? You predicted it? Write a paragraph describing your reaction.
1, this was the best chapter i was surprised when we found out that he survived the saxon and when Volt is his father
Chapter 18
Why does Tao feel he needs to go to the Mountain People?
answer
he go to the mountain people tp go paint and follow Graybeard footstep.
Prewrite
1. What are you good at?
2. How do you feel when you're doing the thing you're good at?
3. How would you feel if people wouldn't let you do the thing you're good at?
Answer
1. I'm good at playing baseball.
2.I feel so good and alive.o
3.I feel bad and bored.
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Chapter 1
1. What problems or conflicts are presented in chapter one? Tao needing to find a rabbit is an obvious one; identify at least two more.
2. Predict the resolution of each conflic
Answer
1.The prolem is that Teo lost the rabbit in the wood and when he goes back it is not there.
2. He might not find the rabbit.
Chapter 2
What two important events happen in this chapter?
Answer
1.It was when Teo helps the wolf .When he went to the fosersate place.
Chapter 3
1. What do Tao and Ram learn to do together?
2. What decision does Tao tell Volt?
3. Look at Tao's decisions and actions from Volt's perspective. Pretend you are Volt. Write a first person paragraph explaining how you feel.
Answer
1.They learn to hunt
2.He tell he is going to hunt by himself.
3.I will be so mad and anger at Tao. Because i told him to go hunting with the huter and refuelsed to go with the hunter.So then if i will tell himto look for his on food.
Chapter 4
In a good paragraph, describe Tao's mother. Start with an interest grabber. Then write your topic sentence. Give three details or examples to support your thesis. Use a quotation from the chapter.
ANSWER
Tao mom is a good person because she sacrificred her self to save tao. She stop the person of killing tao. she die for him.
She liked to paint she saw thing wonderful.Like tao see wongerful things. They she was lovlyperson.
Chapter 5
1. Which two animals does Tao try to draw?
2. Which is easier for him and why?
Answer
1. He drawed Ram and horse.
2.It is easier because he can see his shadow.
Chapter 6
1. Graybeard realizes that Tao has broken two taboos of his clan. What are they?
2. Which taboo doesn't he know about yet?
3. Graybeard describes Volt differently than we have. What aspects of Volt's character is Graybeard acknowledging?
Answer
1.he know about hunt with a wolf dog and hunt in a forrbidin place.
2.he paints
3.he is a good person.
Chapter 7
Write your reaction to the last paragraph in the chapter. Do you agree or disagree with Graybeard? Is what he says true for those times, but not now? Or, is the reverse true: was it not true then, but true now?
Answer
1. i thought he so angryand i agree with graybear.Yes because now we can draw with out permisson on paper and they couldn't because they could of killed him.
Chapter 8
An important theme in this novel is that people should follow their dreams and do what they believe is right, even if they don't follow their society's expected ways.
The author examines this theme in a stone age setting. Imagine a similar situation today.
What situation did you imagine?
In the situation you imagined, should the person follow his or her dreams or should they follow society's rules? Give your opinion.
Answer
1. like Arnold Aorshinager wantto be president but he can't because he is not born in the U.S.A.
Chapter 9
Why do you think Graybeard changed his mind?
What does this tell you about his character?
Answer
1.He change hismind of tao painting.
2. thta he can lookat peoplesdreams and be about them.
Chapter 10
1. What are the "mountains-that-walk"?
2. What almost happened to Tao?
1. They are the mammoth
2. He almost die but ram saved him.
Chapter 11
Do you think Graybeard is a good teacher? Why?
Would you like to have been taught a skill by him? Why?
Answer
1. i do think he is a good because he gives you courage.
2.Yes i will like to be tought because he is a master painter.
Chapter 12
1. Name some of the ingredients used to make paint. Which surprised you most?
2. Why is Tao afraid at the end of the chapter?
Answer
1. There is animal fat, eggs,and blood.The most surprised is the animal fat.
2.He is afraid that graybeard is going to die.
hapter 13
1. Even if Ram had succeeded in hunting the deer, do you think it was a good idea of Tao's to "show off" his dog's ability to hunt? Explain.
2. Predict what will happen next. If you've read ahead, invent an alternate scene.
answer
1.no because if he killes them he will think he is taking the food for him self.
2.i think graybeard is going to die.
Chapter 14
1. Why does Tao cross the river?
2. What decision does Graybeard reach?
answer
1. he crossed it because he heard a wolf dog across te river.
2.To give him to paint in the secret cavern.
Chapter 15
What problem does Tao have by the end of the chapter?
answer
1. he lost in the secret cavern and his candle went out.
chaper 16
this is a picture of a bull.
Chapter 17
Wow! What a chapter! What was your reaction? Tense? Surprised? You predicted it? Write a paragraph describing your reaction.
1, this was the best chapter i was surprised when we found out that he survived the saxon and when Volt is his father
Chapter 18
Why does Tao feel he needs to go to the Mountain People?
answer
he go to the mountain people tp go paint and follow Graybeard footstep.